[Feature] WAN RX/WAN TX sensors for VPN clients

[sshalyminov]

Is it possible to implement WAN RX/WAN TX sensors (and probably presence tracking) for VPN clients, connected to router? I have static client (another same router) connected from my second house to primary and also I am dynamically connecting time to time from cell phone, laptop and other systems. And I want to track traffic of these connections if this is possible. In my case I use L2TP but probably all of this are same mechanism.

[tomaae]

Did you enable PPP tracking and monitoring?

[sshalyminov]

OMG, you had suprise me. You know all our needs :) Ok, great, now I have connection monitoring, but I still can't find if it is possible to monitor WAN RX/WAN TX for those connections. I understand in case of download somethinng from internet by client this connection will take traffic twice - first for download and second for upload to client, but anyway, total to know internet load by this connection would be great if possible. I can see it in WinBox but not sure this is availble for your addon.

[tomaae]

It was a feature request some time ago :) Mikrotik has a lot of features I dont even know about, so there is always a room for improvement ;)

I dont use PPP myself, so I need more data to have a look at this. Could you give me a screenshot and print terse output from terminal containing those data?

[sshalyminov]

It this good?

[sshalyminov]

One more: all interfaces list

[tomaae]

when you check in ppp active connections, is there any way to tell which interface in interface list are they paired to at the moment? if so, it should be easy to do.

[sshalyminov]

In a case of my L2TP server:

 > interface l2tp-server print 
Flags: X - disabled, D - dynamic, R - running 
 #     NAME                                               USER                MTU CLIENT-ADDRESS                                              UPTIME   ENCODING                                             
 0   R l2tp-dacharouter                                   dacharouter        1450 xx.xxx.xx.xxx                                               10h4m38s cbc(aes) + hmac(sha1)          

You can find here interface name mapped to PPP user name. Probably the same for other types of server - PPTP, SSTP and rest, I can't check because of I use L2TP only.

[sshalyminov]

 > interface 
An Interface is physical or virtual device which provides a connection to an external network.

l2tp-server -- Layer Two Tunneling Protocol's server
ovpn-server -- 
ppp-server -- PPP server
pppoe-server -- PPPoE server
pptp-server -- PPTP server
sstp-server -- 

Here are all types of interface *-server commands for my router.

[tomaae]

perfect, thanks

[hellad]

I'd like to vote for the possibility to monitor traffic on L2TP interfaces.

It's a pity that this great integration found all type of interfaces on my RB4011 (ROS 7.1.1) except L2TP. The only difference I see for this type is absence of MAC address in /interface print output.

I guess It can be found as interface with type="l2tp-in" . /interface print

and traffic statistics is available via command :

[hellad]

when you check in ppp active connections, is there any way to tell which interface in interface list are they paired to at the moment? if so, it should be easy to do.

Just in case it might help...

[tomaae]

I already plan to take a look into this. I implement new features as I have time and based on their scope and usefulness. Here I will also need to learn how to setup l2tp on mikrotik for testing. Also #166 is relevant here, since it is an interface based traffic.